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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on the Novel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?
(a) Spaniards.
(b) Moors.
(c) Romans.
(d) English.

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Hatred and sadism.
(b) Resentment and violence.
(c) Foulness and violence.
(d) Hatred and violence.

3. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1797.

4. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Sin.
(c) Adam.
(d) Evil.

5. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1775.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

2. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

3. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

4. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

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